Check-protector



J. w. PRICE. CHECK PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 17, 1-920- 1,363,916. Patented Dec. 28,1920

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CHECK-PROTECTOR.

Application filed. June 17, 1920. Serial No. 389,688.

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I JAMES WV. PRICE, a citizen of the United tates, and a resident of Tulsa, in the county of Tulsa and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in check protectors, and has for its object to provide a device of the character specified, wherein means is provided for defacing a check or the like at predetermined points in such manner that erasures cannot be made without showing plainly that the check has been tampered with.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the improved tool, with a part broken away,

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the upper or movable member,

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the improved tool,

Fig. 4 is an edge view,

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 6 is a section on the line 66 of Fig 5.

In the present embodiment of the invention, a base, or fixed member, is provided in the form of a plate, having at one end an opening 2 by means of which it may be suspended, or may be connected with a holding chain, for instance, and at the other end the plate is notched longitudinally, as shown at 3, to provide a wrench, the notch having side walls perpendicular to the bottom of the notch.

At each side of the notch, the edge of the plate is beveled, as shown in Fig. 4, to provide portions which may be used as screw drivers, one of said portions being provided at each side of the plate.

The movable member 4 is pivoted to the plate 1, intermediate to ends of the said member, and one end of this plate 4 is oppositely beveled, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to provide a pointed member; that is, the side edges of the plate converge to a point, and the said end of the plate may be used as a paper knife for opening envelops, as a spike for lifting corks, or for manicur1ng that is, to clean the finger nails.

The plate 1 has a pin 5 at the end adjacent to the opening 2, against which the point 1 of the member 4 abuts, when the said member 4 has its long axis parallel with, or substantially parallel with the long axis of the plate 4. The opposite end of the plate 4 is bent upwardly from the plane of the plate 1, as clearly indicated at 6, and the said end has a series of longitudinal extending grooves on its under face, which provide ribs 7 between the grooves, the said ribs being triangular in cross section.

Just beneath the grooves and ribs 7 when the plate 4 abuts the pin 5, there is provided a roughened, or toothed surface 8 on the plate 1. Referring to Figs. 5 and 6, it will be seen that the teeth are arranged in series extending longitudinally on the plate 1, and that when the parts are in the normal position of Fig. 1, the teeth 8 register with the grooves between the ribs 7.

The upward bend of the plate 7 provides a slight space between the ends of the plates 1 and 4 at the ribs 7 and the teeth 8, sufficient to permit the entrance of a check between the two plates. When the check has been so placed, with that part which it is desired to deface directly between the ribs and teeth, the lifted end 6 of plate 4 is depressed in any desired manner, as, for instance, by striking with the open hand, to cause the teeth and ribs to emboss the paper. As soon as the pressure on the portion 6 of the plate 4 is released, the said portion will spring upward and the check will be released. The plate 1 has at one side edge and at the end adjacent to the pin 5 a recess 9. This recess, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, has one wall inclined, and the other undercut, to form a pointed lug 10, which will act as a bottle-cap remover. At the opposite side edge, the plate 1 is made straight to pro vide a rule, and this edge has graduations.

In use, when it is desired to deface a check, with the parts in the position of Fig. 4, the check is inserted between the plates 1 and 2, and the upstanding end 6 of plate 4 is depressed.

In order to use the bottle-cap remover, or the pointed end of the plate 4, the said plate is swung to one side to uncover the recess 10, and to bring the point of the plate into convenient position to use. The extent of the swinging will, of course, depend upon the part that it is desired to use.

Referring to Figs. 5 and 6, it will be seen that the teeth 8 are formed on an upwardly offset portion of the plate 8.

I claim:

The device substantially as described,

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 28, 1920. Q

comprising a baseplate having at one end a pin and having at its other end a roughened surface on its upper face adapted to "cooperate in canceling a check, and a plate pivoted between its ends at a point between the pin and the roughened surface of the main plate, and having one end arranged to abut the pin and stop saidp-ivot plate with its other end overlying the roughened sur- 10 face 'of the main plate, said other end of the pivot plate being sprung away from the roughened surface and adapted to be pressed thereto, said pivot plate having a roughened surface on its under face directly above the roughened surface of the first plate when the said pivot plate contacts with the stop pin, whereby said pivot plate may be swung aside to permit the proper p0- sitioning of a check.

- JAMES W. PRICE. 

